Zhang Zhao was very curious when he heard this: "What do you mean more carefully?"

Lao Sha said with a smile: "You are here with the fat master tying you up and hanging up and then killing, but at the Baimu Competition, you have to do everything yourself." ”

"The first competition is called the mountain and river, from the livestock slaughter to the down of the gaiters, you have to do it yourself, the corral to the place of the competition has dozens of steps, you have to carry the livestock to hang well, this is the first item, the comparison is strength. Lao Sha looked at the fat master. "The fat master will definitely win. ”

"The second item is than the slaughtering technique, called a sharp point, after hanging, it is necessary to kill the animal and let the blood into the basin, whose technique is accurate, in the middle of the pulse, the blood in the basin under the livestock naturally receives the most and fastest. ”

"The third item is to take off the robe and give way, and it is better to peel the skin, to see who can peel it quickly and well, and the skin does not stick to the flesh, and there is no skin on the meat. ”

"Then the fourth item is called logical, when cutting the livestock, there can be no hard chopping in one place, all rely on your own daily familiarity with the skeleton of the animal, and divide the meat without breaking the bones. ”

"In the end, there is the knife competition, and whoever cuts the thinner pieces of meat and the cleanest bones wins. Therefore, this fifth item is called the division of flesh and bones. ”

Lao Sha saw that Zhang Zhao and the fat master couldn't close their mouths when they heard it, and hurriedly said, "That's all." ”

Zhang Zhao thought about it carefully, and said softly: "It's not too difficult to listen." The fat master shook his head: "This is who doesn't feed the livestock well and comes up with so many tricks." ”

Lao Sha smiled: "It's all a custom that has been going on for many years, and we people are used to it." After round round, in the end, it depends on who is faster, the blood in the basin is full, the bone is good, and the meat is thin and large, and it is considered a winner.

"A round?" Zhang Zhao hurriedly asked, "How many times do you mean?"

Lao Sha explained: "Only one person from each tribe participates, with sixty people left in the first round, thirty in the second round, and twenty in the third round. In the fourth round, there were only ten people left, and the four rounds were contested, each time the livestock killed was different, and finally the ten people were weighed and skinned, and the thirty elders selected by each tribe were ranked.

The fat master squinted his eyes and asked, "Lao Sha, how was your tribe's ranking in the competition five years ago?"

Lao Sha replied embarrassedly: "Seventy-one." Then he explained: "We were still in more than 30 places in the first two days, but we didn't hold on to the third day, and we fell too far behind. ”

He looked at Zhang Zhao and sighed: "In the past few years, the people in our tribe are still not sure about these items, so I want my little brother to fight for us." ”

"To what extent do you want Zhang Zhao to reach that you only collect the capital?" asked the fat master carefully.

"As long as the little brother can stay in the first round, what my Lao Sha just said will definitely be fulfilled. "Lao Sha's requirements are not high.

The fat master nodded: "Okay, then let's decide, Ming'er, you can send more livestock, and let Zhang Zhao practice according to what you said." ”

After Lao Sha left satisfied, Zhang Zhao also brought food back to Yangxian Hall. Now he is not as reserved as before, and when he takes out the food and distributes it, he talks about what he just happened in passing.

"Do you still have the ability to do this?" Sheng Jin took the lead in asking, "Listen to this, you are doing a good job in the back kitchen." ”

Zhang Zhao said embarrassedly: "I don't know if it's okay or not, anyway, that old man Sha said I can." ”

"Then practice well. Deng Chun said while eating: "I really stayed in the first round, and I can save us a lot of silver taels for Lingxiao." ”

Elder Cheng also continued: "Work hard, if you enter the top ten, you will save more." ”

"It's easier said than done. Elder Leng interjected: "These things sound troublesome enough, and there are many requirements, so it's not bad to open your eyes, don't think too well about things." ”

Several elders talked a lot, but Zhang Zhao found that although Pang Feiyang in the innermost part had turned around, he still didn't say a word, and he was absent-minded even when eating, he thought about the morning, and he didn't feel that he was rude.

After packing up his job and coming out, Zhang Zhao wanted to fetch water as usual, but just after leaving the courtyard gate, he saw the fat master standing at the door. Before Zhang Zhao could react, the fat master snatched his bucket and threw it aside: "You come with me." ”

Zhang Zhao honestly followed the fat master down the mountain from the stone steps in front of him, walked a zigzag along the back of the Lingxiao Hall, and came to the front of a hall.

The fat master pulled Zhang Zhao to push the door and entered. There was an old man in a yellow shirt sitting in the hall, and he frowned slightly when he saw the fat master come in, the old man in the yellow shirt already had a pair of figure-eight eyebrows, and the corners of his eyes and mouth drooped slightly, and he looked at him with a bitter look.

"Fat Fang, what are you doing here?" The old man in the yellow shirt with a bitter face seemed to be very familiar with the fat master. Zhang Zhao hasn't seen anyone dare to call the fat master like that.

"Senior Brother Gu, I haven't seen you for a long time, it's always been good. The fat master was not polite, and sat opposite the old man in the yellow shirt. Zhang Zhao followed and stood behind him honestly.

The old man he called Senior Brother Gu unceremoniously exposed him: "Didn't you still look at me yesterday, you fat man and Gu Changqing have a virtue, it must be nothing good to call me Senior Brother Gu." ”

The fat master coped disappreciatively: "Really, I really forgot that I saw you Senior Brother Gu yesterday." ”

Senior Brother Gu said helplessly: "Let's get down to business, what are you looking for me for." ”

The fat master smiled: "Senior Brother Gu's knife technique is definitely the first in Lingxiao, I want to ask Senior Brother for a favor and guide me to this kid in the back kitchen." ”

After speaking, he pointed at Zhang Zhao: "It's him, this kid has a good way of killing livestock, let him do us a favor by sending livestock to the Baimu League, if it really happens, we can save a lot of money." ”

Senior Brother Gu looked impatient: "No, my knife skills and killing livestock are not all the way at all." Don't bother me, get out of here. ”

The fat master was not in a hurry, so he sat there honestly: "Senior Brother Gu, think about it again, the people we Lingxiao sent out to help can't be looked down upon." ”

Senior Brother Gu ignored him, closed his eyes and said nothing, and the fat master was not in a hurry, so he sat there and accompanied him. There was a sudden silence in the hall.

Zhang Zhao was in a state of distress, he was a little anxious to urinate just now, and he wanted to use the water to go to the woods by the lake to facilitate it, who knew that the fat master would drag him here, but the two people in front of him didn't speak, and he couldn't go out.

After a long time, Senior Brother Gu's eyes opened a slit and looked at the fat master who was sitting steadily: "What do you want me to teach him?"

"Look at it, Senior Brother Gu, how good it is for you to be like this earlier, you also know my ability, Senior Brother, it is easy to sit here with you for a day. The fat master swept away the majestic momentum of the disciples in the back kitchen, and he looked like a scoundrel.

Senior Brother Gu said with a bitter face: "It's cheap, I'm dizzy when I smell the smell of oil smoke on your body, and I can let go of my fart." ”

The fat master laughed: "I want to ask your senior brother to instruct him on a few knife techniques, although he is fast, but I don't think it's detailed enough." ”

Senior Brother Gu didn't say much, looked at Zhang Zhao and asked, "Have you ever learned a knife?" Zhang Zhao hurriedly replied: "I have studied with Uncle Wang in the town for more than a year. ”

"Then tell me what a knife is. Listening to Senior Brother Gu's question, Zhang Zhao thought for a while: "Uncle Wang said that you should keep the knife in your hand and use it as you like." ”

Senior Brother Gu nodded: "If you do this, it will be good, the knife is indeed a part of the body, but which part you want the knife to be, the knife is which part." ”

Zhang Zhao didn't understand it very well. Senior Brother Gu continued: "The knife is your hand, the knife is your foot, the knife is your eye, the knife is your anywhere, whatever you want to do, the knife can do it, this is the knife." ”

Zhang Zhao couldn't help but whisper: "I want to go out and make it convenient." ”

Senior Brother Gu snorted angrily: "Nonsense. ”

Zhang Zhao explained embarrassedly: "It's not that I said the knife, it's that I really want to go and make it convenient." ”

Senior Brother Gu was angry and happy: "Go, go out and turn left, go and come back quickly." ”

Zhang Zhao answered, ran to the door quickly, and was about to reach out to push, the door of the hall opened silently, and a girl walked in gently: "Uncle Gu, are you here?" ”

This girl was dressed in white, with thin eyebrows and bright eyes, a pointed nose and a sharp jaw, and a small mole on the upper left side of her red lips, which was the one Zhang Zhao had seen by the lake that day. Zhang Zhao stayed where he was, forgetting about the urgency of urinating, staring at the girl's face motionlessly.

The fat master stood up and said, "Senior Brother Gu, I will leave that junior brother, you teach that kid well, otherwise I will come to sit with you." ”

Senior Brother Gu waved his hand angrily, but greeted the white-clothed girl at the door: "Your father has a heart, and he wants you to run." ”

The girl in white just glanced at Zhang Zhao, and when she saw the fat master coming over, she hurriedly gave a salute: "I have seen Uncle Fang without makeup." ”

The fat master laughed and boasted: "The little girl is getting more and more beautiful, Senior Brother Mo is really blessed." ”

After speaking, he patted Zhang Zhao on the shoulder: "You kid didn't say that it was convenient to go, why are you still standing here." ”

The fat master made Zhang Zhao excited, and hurriedly ran out of the girl in white with an embarrassed expression. When he hurriedly ran back, there was only Elder Gu alone in the hall, and the fat master and the girl in white had already left.

Zhang Zhao was full of chagrin, and finally saw this girl, but it was still such a humiliating process, Elder Gu didn't know his thoughts, and called him loudly: "What are you in a daze? Tell me first what Fang Fatzi wants you to learn from me?"

Zhang Zhao hurriedly regained his heart and told Elder Gu the truth of the matter. Elder Gu nodded and said, "Fat Man Fang is also considered to be doing some business. Although you are competing for others, after all, you are my Lingxiao disciple, and it would be too ugly if you couldn't even finish one round. ”

After speaking, Elder Gu waved his hand: "You practice a few times first, and I'll take a look." Zhang Zhao pulled out the strange knife and set up a few frames in the hall. Seeing this, Elder Gu frowned again and again.

"Your knife is ugly, and your practice is not good-looking, the same posture, the position of the cut is different. It's a mess. Elder Gu shook his head: "Come back tomorrow, I want to think about how to teach you." ”

Zhang Zhao agreed, rushed out of the hall quickly, and looked around. Except for some Lingxiao disciples who happened to pass by, there was no shadow of the girl in white. He thought and thought, and ran quickly to the back kitchen.

"Count your kid lucky, Senior Brother Gu promised to teach you a few tricks. The fat master restored the face of the elder in the back kitchen, and he didn't see the appearance of Laipi just now. He looked at Zhang Zhao: "What are you still doing here?

Zhang Zhao wanted to ask the origin of the girl in white, but his face was too tender to speak, so he could only go back to the mountain, carry the bucket to the lake, and sigh long as he looked at the footprints.

While carrying water, he thought wildly, recalling the conversation between the girl in white and the two elders in the hall, and faintly felt that the girl seemed to be called Mo Suyan, and his father and Elder Gu seemed to have a good relationship.

Zhang Zhao was happy when he thought of this, since he was going to learn the sword technique with Elder Gu tomorrow, maybe he would be able to see the girl again. So he hurried back to the backyard and began to prepare the evening meal.

That night, after everyone in Yangxian Hall finished eating, Zhang Zhao packed up his things and was just about to leave, but Pang Feiyang, who had been silent all day, called out to him: "Zhang Zhao, how long have you been doing that set of postures?"

Zhang Zhao thought for a while and replied, "More than a year." Pang Feiyang nodded: "Do you just keep practicing one and then change to the next?"

"yes, that's what the book is, and I follow a few poses on each page. The surrounding elders didn't know what Pang Feiyang was asking, so they looked over one after another.

Pang Feiyang smiled: "I see that you are also very familiar with the practice now, why don't you try it according to my method, starting tomorrow morning, you don't take it back after you finish a pose, you directly connect to the next pose, and connect the movements on each page to do it again." ”

Zhang Zhao thought about it before he understood what he meant: "Elder Pang, you also know the posture in the book?"

Pang Feiyang shook his head: "I won't, you just do what I say for a few days and try it to see what the difference is." ”

It turned out that Pang Feiyang was thinking about this question all day, and Zhang Zhao realized that he was not unhappy about anything, he agreed, and turned back to his place.

After eating and reciting the incantation, Zhang Zhao remembered Pang Feiyang's words, he scattered the golden characters in his mind, recalled the postures of the Vajra training body, tried to connect the three postures on each page together, and the golden light turned into a human form and kept practicing, and he didn't feel any change. So he played with it at will, and the golden figure in his head made the eighty-one postures in the whole book several times. until I fell asleep in a daze.

Zhang Zhao woke up early in the morning, and just opened the first posture out of the yard, he felt that something was wrong, Zhang Zhao closed his eyes, and couldn't help shouting: "Two more?" The original five golden characters have now become seven, and Liang Cancan is lined up in his head.

Zhang Zhao thought about it and vaguely felt that these two golden words were related to what he did before going to bed last night. He connected each pose according to Pang Feiyang and tried it once. Sure enough, he felt that it was a little different from a single posture, and he couldn't say exactly where it was, thinking that Lao Sha was going to send more livestock up today, Zhang Zhao hurriedly ran down the mountain road.

It was a major event related to the prosperity of the tribe, Lao Sha came to the back kitchen early to wait, and sent ten more cattle. Seeing Zhang Zhao come in, he greeted with a smile: "Little brother, these are for you to practice." ”

Zhang Zhao was a little unaccustomed: "Uncle Sha, you can call me Zhang Zhao, I always feel awkward when you call me little brother at your age." ”

"Zhang Zhao, from today onwards, you will practice hanging this cow by yourself. The fat master came over and pointed to a scalper: "You can try it." ”

In the small town, Zhang Zhao tied his livestock to the pile every day, but he was not as strong as the cattle in front of him. Watching Zhang Zhao knock the scalper to the ground and skillfully tie the four hooves, Lao Sha's eyes began to shine, and when Zhang Zhao lifted the hundreds of catties of cattle upside down on the iron hook, the fat master was surprised. "This kid is really good, he has the strength to do it. ”

Lao Shamei smiled: "I'm afraid that you can't do this first item, but now it seems that there is great hope." ”

Zhang Zhao himself was also a little surprised, he felt that his movements were much easier now. The fat master corrected his movements in time next to him: "Be more comfortable, lift and put down with your breath." Don't use brute force. ”

According to the instructions of the fat master, Zhang Zhao hung the scalper upside down, and saw Lao Sha and the fat master on the side looking at each other and laughing.

Even after hanging dozens of livestock, Zhang Zhao still felt energetic and tired, until all the livestock were hung up, then he picked up the strange knife, recited the mantra and practiced according to what Lao Sha said yesterday.

With the movement of his hand, Zhang Zhao gradually dispersed the golden words in his mind, and the golden light allowed him to clearly perceive everything in the body of the livestock under his knife, whether it was the fur and blood, or the internal organs and bones, all of them were clearly displayed in his mind.

The livestock were quickly cleaned up by him, and Zhang Zhao felt that there would be some slight progress every time. After he finished cleaning up, he stopped, and Lao Sha, who was watching, left satisfied.

The extra ten cattle sent have thousands of catties of meat. The fat master pointed to the Roshan and said, "This is given to you by Lao Sha, you can deal with it yourself." ”

Lingxiao's daily meals have been arranged, and the disciples in the back kitchen each share some and have leftovers, Zhang Zhao is too full to eat more than a dozen catties of meat, and he remembered the dry meat method that a livestock dealer said, and he asked loudly: "Fat master, can I take this meat?"

The fat master who had eaten a few large bowls of beef burped and nodded: "Take it away, Lao Sha will be delivered tomorrow, I ate too much, and I looked at it." ”

After Zhang Zhao delivered breakfast to the elders of Yangxiantang, he carried the beef on the back mountain several times, set up a high shelf in the small courtyard that he cleaned up, cut the meat into long strips, sprinkled salt and hung it to dry.

It was almost noon after finishing all this, he remembered that he wanted to learn the knife from Elder Gu, and quickly ran to the hall behind the main hall, which was actually a part of the Lingxiao Deacon Hall, and Elder Gu was already impatiently waiting. As soon as he saw him, he scolded loudly: "You kid, do you learn from me, or I learn from you." ”

Zhang Zhao repeatedly confessed to the crime, and Elder Gu pointed to a stack of papers on the table in front of him and said, "Come here, use your knife to separate the first piece of paper." ”

Pulling out the strange knife, Zhang Zhao squinted his eyes and slashed at it. The first piece of paper was cut off accurately, but the strong wind on the knife also brought down the few sheets of paper underneath. I tried a few more times and it still does.

Elder Gu stepped closer: "The hands and eyes are not bad, but the strength on the knife is not well controlled, you watch." After saying that, holding the knife in his hand, he slashed lightly, Zhang Zhao saw the first piece of paper fly up gently, and then Elder Gu sharpened it with his backhand, and another piece of paper flew up, even several times, except for the one above, the paper under it did not move at all, Zhang Zhao saw the knife flashing in front of him, and the speed was faster than himself.

"This is called a vibrating knife, you see, every time the knife passes between two papers, it is a pick and a press, pick the top, press the bottom. After speaking, Elder Gu slowly cut out with a knife, and after cutting into the crack of the paper, his wrist vibrated lightly, the paper on the top flew up, pressed it with the trend, and the paper below was steady, and then the knife came back.

Zhang Zhao looked relaxed and happy, he didn't expect that there was such a delicate kung fu on this knife, and Elder Gu was also a little proud when he saw him. "The use of the vibrating knife is that when you hurt someone, it can expand the wound into a jagged shape, so that the blood will not stop, and what you said yesterday can be used when you hit the nail on the head. And it is also good for the control of the strength of your hands, and it is naturally beneficial to peel the skin and separate the bones. In this way, you can practice well. ”

Elder Gu walked out of the hall door and went for a walk outside, but Zhang Zhao didn't do it immediately, he carefully recalled Elder Gu's actions just now, meditating on the whereabouts of the knife in his mind, and the golden light turned into a knife shape and vibrated again and again. He closed his eyes intently, and when his hands and eyes sensed the unity of the three, the strange knife in his hand was swung out again and again, picking and pressing it one by one, and the papers on the table flew out one after another.

Elder Gu came back in a big circle, and saw Zhang Zhao sitting in a daze, with a stack of papers on the table still not moving, and couldn't help but say angrily: "You kid, you're so lazy when you're late, you go and tell Fang Fatzi, I won't teach." ”

Zhang Zhao hurriedly explained: "Elder Gu, I've practiced everything. ”

Elder Gu's two eight-character eyebrows were raised into sword eyebrows: "It's only a little bit of effort, are you opening your eyes and lying to me? ”

Zhang Zhao took out the knife as he said, and the paper on the table flew up one by one, exactly the same as when Elder Gu had just demonstrated, although the speed was still a little inferior, and the strength control on the knife was impeccable.

Elder Gu was speechless, and it took a long time before he said, "You go back first, and come back tomorrow." ”

After Zhang Zhao left, Elder Gu sat back on the chair with a strange expression: "Fat Fang, Fat Fang, what kind of monster are you sending me." ”